(September 18, 2018 at 8:15 pm)mrj Wrote: There have been several theories proposed that Jesus was not a real person. For example, he is a divine being that lived his life in the space between heaven and earth. I think Richard Carrier proposed this.
So one question I have, is if Jesus was completely made up, why is his name "Jesus"?
I would think based on prophecy, a 'fake' Jesus would have been named Immanuel. Not Jesus.
If you are going to make it up, you would make it up so that minor discrepancies such as this would be avoided.
Don't you think, then, that the gospels were at least based on a real person?
I think the reason why jesus had to have been real is if he was totally made up, then story would not have needed to stretch so hard to disguise what appears to have been a fairly disgraceful sample of Darwin Award winning evolutionary dead end.
